Volume Nine
A Denver-headquartered boutique agency operating since 2006, with a current 13-person roster and an SEO practice spanning technical recovery, content, local search, ecommerce and AI discovery alongside social and paid media.
Hub Score v2.0
67/100
Developing public profile
Top 30%A narrower capability profile; compare buyer fit and Evidence Confidence.
Tied #83 with 30 other companies of 399 listed United States companies.
Entry retainer
Not published
No recurring floor published; confirm current scope
Operating history
0 years
At peer median
Documented breadth
8 services
7 industry categories
Evidence confidence
98% · High
365 comparable industry peers
Website traffic
No public estimate
HypeStat · Checked 26 Aug 2026
Traffic context: No defensible current public traffic estimate was recorded for this domain; this field is display-only and does not affect Hub Score. Traffic is display-only and does not affect Hub Score.
Open HypeStat sourceBuyer decision brief
Where the public evidence points
Volume Nine remains eligible as a genuinely Denver-headquartered boutique, but the refresh corrects its founding year from 2008 to the current company's stated 2006 search origin and removes the unsupported $3,000 floor. The live roster names thirteen people excluding a mascot, supporting a 10-20 capacity band. Its pricing page discusses market ranges but explicitly requires buyers to request Volume Nine's own range, so those market figures are not treated as the agency's price.
Current Denver page documents a 2006 search origin, headquarters address and direct access to an experienced strategist
Published roster shows a compact in-house team with named SEO, content, strategy, design and technology roles
Named cases cover local lead generation, multi-location recovery, B2B content and ecommerce search outcomes
Relative context
How Volume Nine compares
Compared with 365 United States profiles sharing at least one documented industry.
| Measure | Company | Peer median |
|---|---|---|
| Entry retainer floor | Not published | $1.6k/mo |
| Years operating | 0 | Not published |
| Hub Score v2.0 | 67 | 60 |
| Evidence confidence | 98% | 95% |
Peer comparisons are computed from the current directory dataset, not external market estimates.
Documented services
Linked capabilities are included only when documented in the company research record.
Documented industries
Industry inclusion signals public experience, not exclusive specialisation.
Verified profile evidence
Products and operating claims
Denver search practice since 2006
Volume Nine's current Denver page calls it Denver's SEO agency since 2006 and says it has helped hundreds of brands grow online since that year.
Volume Nine Denver SEO
Current Denver headquarters
The site identifies Denver as headquarters and publishes 1312 17th Street #942, Denver, Colorado 80202.
Volume Nine Denver SEO
Thirteen-person published roster
The current team page names thirteen working team members across leadership, SEO, strategy, content, design, social, production and technology, plus a separately labelled mascot.
Volume Nine team
Technical, local, content and AI search
Current search pages cover audits, crawl and indexation, schema, content optimization, local SEO, ecommerce, migration recovery and AI or generative discovery.
Volume Nine SEO services
Custom agency pricing
Volume Nine asks prospects to email for its ranges or complete discovery; the published $2,000-$5,000 and $5,000-plus figures describe the wider Colorado market, not Volume Nine's own minimum.
Volume Nine Denver pricing guidance
Small client portfolios and in-house core team
The current home page says each team member averages fewer than ten clients and that core capabilities are delivered by full-time employees, with trusted partners used for broader or newer services.
Volume Nine working model
First-party case evidence
Published client outcomes
Sanity Solutions
50% more organic lead submissions and 180% more traffic to a priority page year over year
Company-published B2B result for semantic research, refreshed solution-page copy and supporting content during the client's peak quarter.
Open sourceBrakes Plus
234% more non-branded organic traffic in one year and 115% growth in targeted keywords
Company-published multi-location recovery after a site launch, using technical, location-page, link and local-directory work; it also reports a number-one Denver ranking for 'brakes'.
Open sourceGloProfessional
27% more impressions and 14% more clicks for the main keyword, which reached page one
Company-published integrated campaign using SEO, content, influencer outreach and social media; its wider conversion results are not attributable to SEO alone.
Open sourceTransparent scoring
Why Hub Score v2.0 is 67
Operating resilience
3/153 points under 3 years; 6 at 3-5; 9 at 6-10; 11 at 11-15; 13 at 16-20; 15 at 21+ years.
Delivery capability
25/25A monotonic diminishing-return curve: 1 service = 6, 2 = 10, 3 = 14, 4 = 17, 5 = 20, 6 = 22, 7+ = 25.
Sector evidence
25/25Industry coverage contributes 10, 14, 16 or 18 points; 1, 2 or 3+ source-linked case studies add 3, 5 or 7 points.
Commercial clarity
9/204 for a live site + 6 for a disclosed entry floor + 5 for a stated pricing model + 5 for a specific best-fit client statement.
Delivery capacity
5/15Team bands map monotonically: 10-20 = 5, 20-50 = 8, 50-150 = 11, 150-250 = 13, 250-500 or 500+ = 15.
The five capability factors total exactly 100. Evidence Confidence is calculated and displayed separately. See sources, guardrails and formulas →
Questions for the sales call
- Ask which named strategist and specialists will work on the account and how many active clients each currently manages.
- Request Search Console, analytics and lead evidence for a comparable account, with absolute baselines and channel definitions.
- Separate Volume Nine employees from outside partners in the proposal and confirm pricing, term, deliverables, implementation hours and exit ownership.
What this profile does not prove
- The agency does not publish its own comparable monthly SEO floor; Colorado market ranges on its page are editorial guidance, not a Volume Nine quote.
- The roster-based capacity band is a current-site count rather than a payroll disclosure and can change between reviews.
- Some selected cases combine SEO with content, social or other channels, so only the clearly labelled organic measures are used in the profile.